"If you can shoot someone for throwing popcorn at you under Florida’s flawed Stand Your Ground law..."
"...it would be hard to convince a jury that a person’s not allowed to hit someone who instigated a confrontation by storming into their business and barking the most aggressive and inflammatory term in the English language in their face."
Said Andrew Warren, the state attorney for Hillsborough County, quoted in "Customer’s Racial Slur Drew a Fatal Punch. The Sentence Is House Arrest. A plea deal in a confrontation at a Dunkin’ shop in Tampa, Fla., 'holds the defendant accountable while considering the totality of the circumstances,' the prosecutor said" (NYT).
The sentence was 2 years of house arrest.
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